A5086829419- Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
- Sex work and related issues
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- American History and Culture
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
University of Tasmania
2015-2024
Newcastle University
2015-2024
Harm Reduction Services
2022
Australian Institute of Criminology
2004
United States Public Health Service
1981
Abstract Aims To examine changes in illicit drug consumption between peak holiday season (23 December–3 January) Australia and a control period two months later coastal urban area, an inland semi‐rural area island populated predominantly by vacationers during holidays. Design Analysis of representative daily composite wastewater samples collected from the inlet major treatment plant each area. Setting Three plants. Participants Wastewater plants serviced approximately 350 000 persons 120...
Wastewater analysis provides a non-intrusive way of measuring drug use within population. We used this approach to determine daily conventional illicit drugs [cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)] emerging psychostimulants (benzylpiperazine, mephedrone methylone) in two consecutive years (2010 2011) at an annual music festival.Daily composite wastewater samples, representative the festival, were collected from on-site treatment plant analysed for...
Wastewater contains a large range of biological and chemical markers human activity exposures. Through systematic collection analysis these within wastewater samples it is possible to measure the public health whole populations. The effluent biosolids can also be used understand release chemicals from treatment plants into environment. comparison with catchment specific data (e.g. demographics) however remains largely unexplored. This manuscript describes national monitoring study that...
Tobacco and alcohol consumption remain priority public health issues world-wide. As participation in population-based surveys has fallen, it is increasingly challenging to estimate accurately the prevalence of tobacco use. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) an alternative approach for estimating substance use at population level that does not rely upon survey participation. This study examined spatio-temporal patterns nicotine (a proxy tobacco) Australian via WBE.Daily wastewater samples (n...
Population size is crucial when estimating population-normalized drug consumption (PNDC) from wastewater-based epidemiology (WBDE). Three conceptually different population estimates can be used: de jure (common census, residence), facto (all persons within a sewer catchment), and chemical loads (contributors to the sampled wastewater). De will same where all households contribute central system without wastewater loss. This study explored feasibility of determining its effect on PNDC in an...
This project evaluated the reThink Chatbot, which was deployed on Pornhub website in United Kingdom March 2022. The chatbot designed to direct individuals attempting search for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) UK support services called Stop It Now, provided by Lucy Faithfull Foundation (LFF). displayed 2.8 million times between 2022 and August 2023, resulting 1,656 requests more information Now services; 490 click-throughs website; approximately 68 calls chats anonymous counselling...
With the increasing number of individuals accessing online child sexual exploitation material (CSEM), there is an urgent need for primary prevention strategies to supplement traditional focus on arrest and prosecution. We examined whether warning messages would dissuade from visiting a honeypot website purporting contain barely legal pornography. Participants ( n = 419) seeking site were randomly assigned one five conditions; they went straight landing page (control; 100) or encountered...
Drug consumption in prisons is a concern for the safety of incarcerated people and staff. Typically, drug use prevalence estimated through urinalysis intelligence operations, which can be intrusive stressful. An alternative approach, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), was used this study to estimate licit illicit drugs entire population prison Australia. Wastewater samples were collected from March December 2020, covering periods no restrictions when access restricted prevent transmission...
Abstract Introduction and Aims Wastewater analysis ( WWA ) is intended to be a direct objective method of measuring substance use in large urban populations. It has also been used measure prison two previous studies. The application this context raised questions as how best it might illicit drug prisons, whether can prescription misuse. We applied small regional the 12 licit substances. attempted non‐medical methadone buprenorphine compare our findings with results prison's mandatory testing...
Literature to date has treated as distinct two issues (a) the influence of pornography on young people and (b) growth Internet child pornography, also called exploitation material ( CEM ). This article discusses how might interact with, be affected by, . The first considers effect victims abused generate material. It then explains paucity data regarding prevalence with which view online, inadvertently or deliberately. New analyses are presented from a 2010 study search terms entered an...
Internationally, many youth justice systems aim to divert young people from court through informal mechanisms, such as police cautions and restorative conferences. Among other things, diversion avoids the potentially criminogenic effects of formal contact with criminal system. However, in some instances, sum appearances diversionary procedures indicates an overall increase numbers having (formal or informal) system — a phenomenon known net-widening. This article summarises previous debates...
'Big data' presents many interesting opportunities and challenges. This article focuses on the potential use of social media sentiment analysis as a legitimate tool for criminological research to better understand public perceptions crime problems attitudes responses crime. While degree scepticism should always apply unsubstantiated sources internet, SMSA is likely be rich source valuable information. Observational low-level risks in terms human ethics principally because information derived...
Recent research has indicated that cybercrime thrives when a corrupt social, economic, and political environment emerges such law enforcement impact is minimised key elements of crime prevention are absent. In this paper, using snowball methodology we analyse patterns ownership “child model” sites which generate profits from advertising and/or subscriptions. While the material may not be traditional “pornography” in content, it arguably exploitative. An open question how compares to “beauty...
The development of central fatigue is prominent following exercise-induced hyperthermia, but the contribution supraspinal not well understood. Seven endurance-trained cyclists (mean ± SD peak O2 uptake, 62.0 5.6 mL/kg/min) completed two high-intensity constant-load cycling trials (296 34 W) to limit tolerance in a hot (34 °C, 20% relative humidity) and, on separate occasion, for same duration, control condition (18 humidity). Core body temperature (Tc ) was measured throughout. Before and...